FLAVIAN II. (d. 518), bishop or patriarch of Antioch, was chosen by the emperor Anastasius I. to succeed Palladius, most probably in 498. He endeavoured to please both parties by a middle course in reference to the Chalcedon (q.v.) decrees, but after great hesitation accepted the Henoticon, or decree of union, issued by the emperor Zeno. This brought upon him the anathema of the patriarch of Constantinople, and failed to secure the favour of Anastasius, who found in the riots between the rival parties in 511 a pretext for banishing Flavian to Petra, where he died.